I am having problems getting a network printer installed on LM 13 maya cinnamon x64 and given my newbie status am unsure how to accomplish this. I opened Printers in the Preferences menu and hit the button to add a new printer. This opened a new window where I can select local or network and can fill in a box with an address and toggle a search by address checkbox, but the add button is greyed out and I can only hit the cancel button. There is a message shown "FirewallD is not running. Network printer detection needs services mdns, ipp, ipp-client and samba-client enabled on firewall." regardless if the firewall is started or not. I have tried it both ways.

This is on a system where I already have a working LM8 helena x64 install, so I attempted to copy /etc/cups/printers.conf and the /etc/cups/ppd/* to my maya partition. This worked partially in that one of the printers is functional, but the other is not. The ppd from helena for the failing printer is for Gutenprint 5.2.4, but it appears that maya is running 5.2.8 and is not compatible. I also have a katya system and tried the ppd from there, but it appears that katya is using Foomatic and thus it isn't compatible with maya either.

Can someone guide me in getting a Gutenprint 5.2.8 ppd for my printer? Alternatively, can someone guide me in an alternative printer install procedure that will work given the IP address of the network printer?

What is your printer make & model? That would kinda help in answering this I think

Printer is a Brother HL-5050, which supports both PostScript and PCL. I install both versions as I find that with some documents the PS version runs into problems and I get an error message instead of the expected output. In those cases I try again using PCL and that works.

I was able to simply copy the PS configuration from helena, but the PCL configuration from helena is at an earlier Gutenprint level and the PCL configuration from katya is Foomatic.

Sorry, I'm not sure what your next step should be. Perhaps one of the more knowledgeable users here will pick up on your request for support. It seems rather specific issue though, so you may want to include some more information or steps you have tried for others to be able to help you with this.

I'm not sure what else I can add to what I included in the first post. I will be happy to run appropriate diagnostics or commands from a terminal session and capture results to upload here, but I do not know what would be helpful. As I noted I attempted to "migrage" my current printers from helena only to find that only one of them is compatible under maya. I don't know if the problem is specifically related to the fact that I am using network printing, perhaps my install was incomplete and somthing is missing.

There are severe issues with the latest cups. There are several threads about not printing and if you check out the bug list networked printers are on it.I have problems with my usb printer as well - been waiting for a fix for a couple of weeks now.

I have run this utility and been able to successfully create my PCL printer. I also tried to create a "Generic CUPS-PDF Printer" with a Device URI "cups-pdf:/", but while I created it and it says it is creating and printing test pages I don't see the output anywhere. What did I miss?

I also tried to create a "Generic CUPS-PDF Printer" with a Device URI "cups-pdf:/", but while I created it and it says it is creating and printing test pages I don't see the output anywhere. What did I miss?

### Key: Out## CUPS-PDF output directory ## special qualifiers: ## ${HOME} will be expanded to the user's home directory## ${USER} will be expanded to the user name## in case it is an NFS export make sure it is exported without## root_squash! ### Default: /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}

Out ${HOME}/PDF

That's the universal location so it will affect all users but to change it just change PDF to Documents for example.

You will probably have to restart cups ( sudo service cups restart ) and maybe logout and login again - I don't remember.

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I also tried to create a "Generic CUPS-PDF Printer" with a Device URI "cups-pdf:/", but while I created it and it says it is creating and printing test pages I don't see the output anywhere. What did I miss?

### Key: Out## CUPS-PDF output directory ## special qualifiers: ## ${HOME} will be expanded to the user's home directory## ${USER} will be expanded to the user name## in case it is an NFS export make sure it is exported without## root_squash! ### Default: /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}

Out ${HOME}/PDF

That's the universal location so it will affect all users but to change it just change PDF to Documents for example.

You will probably have to restart cups ( sudo service cups restart ) and maybe logout and login again - I don't remember.

I see no such file in my /etc/cups directory, so this is probably my problem. How do I get this file created? It would appear that deleting and adding a generic CUPS PDF printer is not sufficient to do so, as it did not create one.

That should have created the PDF printer for you and created the /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf file automatically.EDIT: You might want to remove the PDF printer you created and let the package create one for you.

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That should have created the PDF printer for you and created the /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf file automatically.EDIT: You might want to remove the PDF printer you created and let the package create one for you.

That did the trick. I now have a working PDF printer as well as my network printer in both PS and PCL modes.

Many thanks for that post altair4. I've been wondering for a long while why my printer would not print duplex, even with the newest HPLIP driver. Why are the options in the Mint System Settings so restricted?! This command brought up the dialogue I'm familiar with on other Linux systems, and that I can't seem to find from the menu.

Thanks for this, just as a matter of interest if you have the chrome browser installed turn on cloud print and share the pdf printer, now you can print from your android phone / tablet to pdf files on your mint box